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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Basement Disaster

Our basement was wet, had flaking paint and the floors were a hot mess. Finally after almost three years of doing laundry in this disaster, we I had enough and after nagging the hubs we decided to do something about it!

As you can tell it wasn't very pretty looking, so the hubs and I went on our merry way to Menards to get the materials to take care of this room!

What we needed:

10 gallons of Dry-Lok

4 gallons of concrete paint

Rollers

Brushes

Bleach

5 gallon bucket for water

We started out by scraping all the bubbled paint off the walls. The hubs and I think that the previous owners used extra paint they had laying around, because this obviously isn't how its supposed to look. Then we bleach cleaned the walls swept all the crap off the floor and let everything dry fully with about five fans and the help of a dehumidifier.

Once the walls were dry we went to town painting and after about 6 hours of painting we had this:

The room instantly felt 1,000 times cleaner, bigger, more open, most importantly cleaner, dryer, did I say cleaner?!

We were so excited we immediately got started on the floors. As you can tell the floors were a little beat up before!

We wanted a warmer color for the floors to make the basement as inviting as it can possibly be!

We did end up finishing painting 98% of the floor in the basement, only one corner and by our electrical panel didn't get the paint loving. We were opting to wait for the rest of it to completely dry then we'd go back and finish it up. Well... right after that my grandma got sick and eventually passed away which led to a lot of family stuff we were dealing with at that time so the basement had to go on the back burner. Then winter came and we couldn't work on it then because the basement has to be a certain temperature for the paint to do its job. Then we were working on our bathroom, then early summer and we were working on our landscaping and here we are now..almost a year later and the basement looks like a bomb went off in it.

Between projects and accumulating furniture for future projects along with items that my mom needed us to hang on to THIS is what our basement currently looks like:

We have already made a little bit of an impact. We have piles of stuff that we need to take to Goodwill along with a gigantic pile of crap that needs to be tossed.

Within a little over a year we went from this:

To this:

And then to this:

And we are sick of it, so the hubs and I are busting our buns to get this looking like a functional basement before my surgery....